Team

Meet the people behind Ritual

Core

Niraj Pant

Niraj Pant

Co-founder

GP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti

Akilesh Potti

Co-founder

Partner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Anish Agnihotri

Anish Agnihotri

MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo

Eva Zhang

Eva Zhang

Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford

Maryam Bahrani

Maryam Bahrani

Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Arka Pal

Arka Pal

Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Naveen Durvasula

Naveen Durvasula

PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

0xEmperor

0xEmperor

Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Dan Gosek

Dan Gosek

CoS @ Ava Labs, Political Science & Economics @ Columbia

Praveen Palanisamy

Praveen Palanisamy

Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

Achal Srinivasan

Achal Srinivasan

Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Wally Chang

Wally Chang

DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs

Stelios Rousoglou

Stelios Rousoglou

Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Stef Henao

Stef Henao

Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Arshan Khanifar

Arshan Khanifar

Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Peiyuan Liao

Peiyuan Liao

CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Hadas Zeilberger

Hadas Zeilberger

PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

Sarah McNeely

Sarah McNeely

TPM @ Near, LucidWorks, PhD English Literature @ TCU

Jody Rebak

Jody Rebak

CoS @ Dapper Labs

Jeanine Boselli

Jeanine Boselli

Ops @ Palantir, Protocol Labs

Micah Goldblum

Micah Goldblum

Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Mayank Pandey

Mayank Pandey

PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

Andrew Komo

Andrew Komo

PhD Student @ MIT, Algorithmic Game Theory, Jane Street, Math & CS @ MIT

William Wang

William Wang

Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography

Interns

Advisors